Reading text from the internet.

Im trying to create an application that, ideally, would check a simple text file from my webserver.

Now comes my problem.

So far, I havent been able to make it look up this text file. The program always returns with a bad stream handle. Is my method actually possible?

Any help would be great. Thanks.

You could use InternetOpen, InternetOpenURL, InternetReadFile and InternetCloseHandle. Look them up on MSDN. They're defined in wininet.dll. If you need help, I've done something like that before.

you should be able to do it by adapting this:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=24

Cheers, both of you.

If you dont mind, could I have a small example of how to call a *.dll file and then use it? Ive never tried this method before so im a little lost.

Thanks.

Hi Davo, check this:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/sdkspecs/sdkspecs/userlibs_specs.txt